Word: royal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last spring he held the six-seat in Harvard's first freshman heavyweight boat, the eight that won its event at the Royal Henley Regatta in London in July the only American winners...
...dodges that spell success in prep school, now substituting serious political essays on supply side economics for explications of Victorian poetry. In his first spy novel, Buckley had his obviously autobiographically based Yalie Blackford Oakes finish his mission Saving the Queen with a final climax in the private royal chambers. The real life Buckley probably wouldn't go that far outside his imagination but the pranks still go on. At a swearing-in session for a friend, Buckley finished his remarks with a video clip of the newly installed diplomat reflecting on the nature of government service...
...parents wanted him to become a scientist, but after two years at Oxford he decided to study English literature instead. After graduation he held a succession of temporary jobs, including one with a provincial theater company, published a volume of poems when he was 23, and enlisted in the Royal Navy at the onset of World War II. In his early 30s, Golding came of age. "One had one's nose rubbed in the human condition," he recalls. He witnessed the sinking of the Bismarck, took part in the Normandy invasion and decided that the human race was inherently...
...when her libertine husband died in a duel over a courtesan. A crush of suitors quickly moved in: Nicolas Fouquet, Louis XIV's ill-fated superintendent of finance; Marshal de Turenne, the outstanding military hero of the era; Prince Armand de Bourbon, a member of the royal family. The widow refused them all. Her deepest affections were held in reserve for her daughter. The occasion for most of the Sévigné letters was the daughter's marriage and removal to Provence. Separated from the child she idolized, Mme. de Sévigné launched upon...
...film role that won him an Oscar this year; and to that role he brought a fierce stillness and a passion for moral serenity that approach star quality. But for most of his career Kingsley has been a supporting player of the highest distinction with Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company-a satellite. The character actor cannot simply put himself on display as a star can, assured that his radiance will attract every eye. He must be a wily mendicant for the audience's attention, making up in craft what he lacks in glamour. He cannot just play...